Born in 1875 in Basel, Switerzland, C. G. Jung was a medical doctor and psychiatrist who, along with Freud, opened up our research into the nature of the human unconscious and founded psychotherapy. Their work led to the modern re-popularization of interest in dreams and archetypes.
Jung gave us the psychological type categories that led to the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and coined the terms introvert and extravert. He also coined the terms synchronicity (and his writing on that topic is the main reason for its continued popularity in our culture today) and collective unconscious – giving us a term for the deeper layer of the psyche that transcends the personal.
Jungian psychology is a larger on-going tradition rooted in psychotherapeutic approaches to the unconscious.
8 weeks beginning Tuesday 8 May • 7-9 pm Pacific • Live via Zoom
WEEKLY TOPICS:
Jung’s attitude to psychotherapy. The ego; the unconscious and its levels; the archetypes
The archetypes continued; archetypal motifs in myth and folklore
The archetype of liminality and initiation; archetypal structures in the psyche; the shadow; anima and animus
Complexes; puer–puella; the divine child; the trickster; the wise old man
The symbol; individuation; Jung on myth
The Self; Jung on religion; dreams and active imagination
Jung on alchemy
Jung’s typology; the Freud-Jung break